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bakker, pure yellow. Grows 12 inches high. A well-known 

 large flower. Yellow Prince, rich golden yellow, large and 

 sweet scented. Grows 12 inches high; very early. Mon Tresor 

 grows 10 to 12 inches high, large flower. 



MAY-FLOWERING OR COTTAGE TULIPS (T. Gesneriana type). Most 

 popular for the average garden, coming into flower from one to 

 two weeks later than the early varieties. As cut flowers they are 

 superior, lasting a week or more in water. Free and graceful 

 habit, 18 to 24 inches high, bearing flowers of brilliant colourings 

 on long, strong stems. They can be used with great effect in 

 both borders and beds, either in solid colours or in combinations. 

 Among the best of this section are: Giant Gesneriana, dazzling 

 crimson-scarlet, with metallic blue-black centre. Grows 2 

 feet high. The showiest, tallest, and largest flowered of all 

 tulips. Golden Eagle, deep yellow, similar, except in colour, to 

 Giant Gesneriana. Bouton d Or, deep, rich golden yellow, 

 with dark centre. A small flower, but very effective; considered 

 by many to be the finest yellow tulip. Nigrette (the black 

 tulip), jet-black in colour, resembling in form Bouton d Or. 

 Shandon Bells, when opening the flowers are a delicate primrose 

 flushed with pink, changing as they age to rosy carmine. 

 Maiden Blush, or Picotee, beautiful white flower, the edges 

 changing to clear pink. Very dainty in effect, and long lasting. 

 Florentina, a very small bulb that bears one or two large, 

 handsome yellow flowers on each stalk. 



WHITE SINGLE EARLY: Pottebakker White, the best early white 

 bedding tulip. Grows 10 to 12 inches high. White Hawk, a 

 beautiful large pure white. Grows 10 to 12 inches high. La 

 Reine, white, slightly tinted pink; 10 to 12 inches high. Excel 

 lent form; lasts well. L Immaculee, one of the dwarfest and 

 earliest of pure whhe tulips Grows 6 inches high. 



MIXED COLOURS: Tournesol, red, with narrow edge of yellow. 

 Grows 8 inches high. Titian, red bordered yellow, similar to 

 Tournesol, but with larger yellow margin. Mariage de ma 

 Fille, crimson and white, flaked and finely striped. Grows 

 12 inches high. Late. 



DOUBLE FLOWERING: Equal to most of the singles in brilliancy, but 

 are more lasting. The later flowering varieties are very effective 



